In the midst of a rapidly growing and ever-evolving industry, we are seeing and hearing companies struggle as they reconfigure their businesses in order to meet the developing convergence between wireline and wireless technologies.
This program explores a wide variety of issues that we are collectively solving in order to meet the demands of end-users seeking access to data from anywhere, anytime.
At the root of the issue is our infrastructure. How do we enable our infrastructure to sustain and maintain the demand for more and more data from nearly any type of device and location?
Let’s consider this: by the end of 2000, there were 361 million global Internet users, which represented 5.8 percent of the world population – according to Internet World Stats. By March of this year, there were over 2.9 billion users, nearly 41% of the world’s population. That is an astounding growth of over 35 percent. This infrastructure demand trickles to every single device and location that each and every one of us visits on a daily basis.
IDC released a report that stated 97 percent of connected devices sales by 2017 will be tablets and smartphones. And this isn’t just for consumers – it is to enable businesses who need a mobile device management strategy to improve customer satisfaction and acquire new customers (faster). However, IT departments struggle because of their concern with keeping up with the rapid pace of mobile customer requirements.
That’s why we are here. In order to solve this problem, we need to fortify our infrastructure from the outside to the inside and everywhere in-between. We need to make communication seamless, painless and efficient as it traverses from one type of network to another – wireline to wireless. We need to ensure the technology, standards and regulatory constraints are addressed directly and timely. As user demands continue to soar, our collective ability to deliver on their experience and expectations becomes – in many ways – job number one.
This program addresses a wide range of issues we need to be aware of, explore, work to overcome and in many ways, work together to achieve.